A WOMAN claimed to hate Paris after visiting the popular French city on holiday.
Weirdly, there is a scientific reason why – and it's called Paris Syndrome.
A video showed a woman pointing at the Eiffel Tower and laughing while crying, before saying: "I hate it here."
TikTok user Jacob Brainerd then explained that this can be called Paris Syndrome, and explained what it was.
He said: "There is actually a named medical illness called Paris Syndrome that people get.
"People who have this giant, fantastic idea of how great Paris is and it's so disappointing when they get there that they actually get sick."
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"If you look at the symptoms, it says things like hallucinations.
"Imagine hating Paris so much you that start hallucinating."
Other symptoms include anxiety, vomiting, sweating, dizziness and tachycardia.
The syndrome was first coined by a Japanese psychiatrist working in France, Professor Hiroaki Ota, according to the BBC, more than 30 years ago.
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Thought to be a very severe version of culture shock, it is caused by things like the language barrier, as well as physical exhaustion and differences in interactions between tourists and locals.
It primarily affects Japanese tourists due to the romanticizing of Paris as a romantic city, although other tourists including Korean and Chinese tourists are thought to have experienced it too.
It affects tourists so much that the Japanese Embassy in Paris has a 24-hour hotline for people experiencing it, and even repatriated up to 20 tourists a year suffering from it.
Lots of people chimed in with their own bad experiences of visiting the French capital city on TikTok.
One person said: "Went to Paris in 2001 and it was by far the dirtiest, smelliest city I’ve ever been in my life."
Another person wrote: "The people of Paris are the meanest people I have never met in my life."
Someone even said: "I literally was hospitalized the day I arrived lmfao."
Not everyone agreed – someone said: "I don’t understand this Paris 100% lived up to the hype for me."
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